Leonard Vona, CPA, CFE

Fraud Analytics Seminar Instructor

Leonard Vona has more than 30 years of diversified auditing and forensic accounting experience, including a distinguished 18-year private industry career. As the CEO of Fraud Auditing, Inc., Vona advises clients in areas of litigation support, financial investigations, fraud prevention and income taxes. He has successfully conducted more than 100 financial investigations for some of the largest high-profile corporations in the United States. The net result of his efforts has saved clients millions of dollars through recovery or defense strategies. His financial investigation experience includes embezzlement, economic damage, asset theft, bribery, intellectual property, and various disbursement schemes. Vona's trial experience is extensive, including appearances in federal and state courts. He is qualified as an expert witness, and has been cited in West law for successful use of circumstantial evidence. Vona lectures nationally and internationally on fraud risk assessments, fraud investigation, fraud prevention and detection, and fraud schemes perpetrated on companies. He regularly speaks at audit conferences and has developed the Fraud Training Curriculum for the MIS Training Institute, and has provided more than 1,000 days of fraud training to organizations around the world. He is on the faculty of the National Association of Fraud Examiners and previously on the faculty of Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has written the training course on Auditors Responsibility for Detecting Fraud - SAS99 used by CPA Societies across the country. He is also the author of Wiley Publishing's Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program and The Fraud Audit: Responding to the Risk of Fraud in Core Business Systems